What can you look forward to with a bachelors' degree in paralegal studies?
- Employment in a growing, high-paying sector of the job market
- A lifetime of career opportunities
- Working closely with attorneys in a legal environment.
Do you need a bachelors' degree to be a paralegal?
In law offices, corporations and government agencies, paralegals are assuming higher levels of responsibility. For that reason, many employers require paralegal job candidates to have bachelors' degrees. Legal assistants and paralegals with four-year degrees tend to make more money than those without.
A two-year Associate in Paralegal Studies degree can serve as an entry to the field, however, and will transfer smoothly to our bachelors' degree program.
Advanced legal studies, skills training, liberal arts
At Globe University, your instructors will be attorneys and paralegals. You will receive the legal studies and skills training you need to be effective from the first day on the job.
The paralegal bachelors' degree program at GU includes, in addition to legal studies and specialized skills training, 55 credits in the liberal arts, key to the development of analytical and inferential reasoning and an understanding of how our legal system operates in a diverse society.
Just a few legal topics covered in paralegal courses required for the bachelors' degree program:
- Legal research
- Real estate law
- Torts
- Criminal law
- Constitutional issues
- Legal ethics
- Family law
- Law office management
- Interviewing and investigation
- Corporate business structures
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Contracts
In every course you take as you earn your Bachelor's degree in Paralegal Studies, you will enhance your communication skills and focus on practical, hands-on problem solving. As you near the end of your program, you will prepare for a paralegal internship, where you will have the opportunity to put your classroom learning to work and add to your network of professional relationships. | 
